If an eatery has the word “cantina” in the title, I’m there. When the title, specifically, is “Cantina Beach,” I’m there even faster, because: beach equals happiness.
Th...
Some vegetables seem to call out to me from their produce-aisle bins: “You know me and you love me,” the broccoli and the carrots and the peppers and the collards say, as...
After the last two months of writing about my bouts of COVID and food poisoning, I’m suddenly struck dumb with Spring Fever. This was triggered by a few environmental fac...
Chester’s Barbecue
943 Poquonnock Road, Groton
Chestersbbq.com, (860) 449-6868
During 26½ years at The Day, I’ve always qualified my comments about local barbecue with ...
East Lyme, particularly the Niantic section of East Lyme, has become a popular dining destination. So the eateries don’t necessarily need a “Restaurant Week” to draw dine...
It’s a common misconception that the best soups require long ingredient lists and hours of simmering.
In fact, just a handful of high-flavor items can be transformed into...
Friday fish and chips at the Portuguese Holy Ghost Society is a tradition in Stonington Borough that dates back more than three decades.
Since 1992, volunteer members of ...
Everyone needs a handful of recipes in their back pocket to get through those hectic days when 5 p.m. sneaks up on you and there is no plan for dinner. Such recipes are l...
I spent part of the week of Christmas with my partner Joe’s family in Central Ohio. A few nights before the holiday, we all went out to a sports bar for dinner. While wat...
Sat., Feb. 17:
I was in NYC on an annual pilgrimage to Radio City Music Hall with my trusty sidekick, Forrest, to see LOTR: The Two Towers with full orchestra and ch...
One-pot, sheet pan and skillet meals are the recipe darlings of the weeknight dinner world. They’re streamlined for efficiency, and there’s less to clean when mealtime is...
Take a look at these numbers: Based on past experiences, organizers expect close to 10,000 people to show up for this year’s Cabin Fever Charity Chowder Cook Off on Satu...
When my husband told me the other day that he loves me more than peanut butter, I knew that after 26 years, our marriage remained on solid footing.
The man is clearly pas...
Until I moved to this neck of the woods, I’d never seen them, nor heard of them. But then I noticed, every January in the Mystic Big Y, white boxes of jelly donuts with P...
Westerly — The site that housed the now-defunct Bridge Restaurant is getting a new life: as River Bar, a restaurant run by the duo that also leads Nana’s in Westerly and ...
When it’s Super Bowl season, comfort food abounds in grocery stores; eateries; and the houses of those who bother to cook. As someone whose kitchen is currently a constru...
Since Cadbury popularized the fancy box of chocolates in the 19th century, the link between love and those darkly sweet treats has only grown stronger — thanks partly to ...
Whenever there are random bits of crisped cheese lingering on a baking dish or sheet pan, chances are you’ll find me hovering over it, picking it clean of the irresistibl...
Complaints about restaurants? I field dozens every week as the host of my every-Wednesday online chat, where readers can ask me anything and everything about the industry...
A couple weekends ago, I stopped on the way home from a movie with my roomie to pick up a pizza. We had tried a few different pies from this particular pizzeria in recent...